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1. tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Feb-2023 08:24:20 JST tech? no! man, see...

   this interview with the Mozilla CEO is really baffling to me

   https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/14/23598344/mozilla-firefox-ceo-mitchell-baker-microsoft-edge-bing-google-apple-ai

   first off she talks about how Mozilla isn't really anti-microsoft or anti-big-tech, which ... uh, what? and then not very long after that she's talking about how Mozilla has always been anti-tracking... how do you reconcile that? how out of touch do you have to be to think you can be anti-tracking without being anti-big-tech

   later it gets worse:

   > Q: Do you think that you have to build generative AI products into Firefox to take advantage of that disruptive moment?

   > A: Well, at some level the answer is yes, because that’s the new technology.

   everything she says on this topic is a tremendous nothingburger of meaninglessness; we have to invest in this because it's new, even if we have no idea what it's for or why it would be helpful

   the silicon valley brainworms really show no mercy

   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Feb-2023 08:24:35 JST Adrian Cochrane

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     @technomancy There's a reason I feel compelled to enter the ring...